Piz Üertsch
Piz Üertsch is a mountain of the Albula Alps, overlooking the Albula Pass, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It is located south-west of Piz Kesch.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,267 metres
- Description: mountain
- Also known as: “Piz UEertsch”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Albula Pass and Igl Compass.
Albula Pass
Mountain saddle
Photo: Zumzum, Public domain.
The Albula Pass is a Swiss mountain pass in the canton of Graubünden. It lies at the heart of the Albula Alps, on the watershed between the Albula, tributary of the Rhine and the Ova d'Alvra, tributary of the Inn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Preda and Naz GR.
Preda
Village
Photo: Stefan.straub, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Preda is a small village within the Swiss municipality of Bergün Filisur, district of Albula, Canton Graubünden, in the East of Switzerland. The name Preda, like Prada, derives from the Latin pratum = meadow.
Bever
Village
Photo: John Tuttle, Public domain.
Bever is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the Swiss canton of the Grisons.
Piz Üertsch
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: La Punt-Chamues-ch, Maloja District, Graubünden, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.59641° or 46° 35′ 47″ northLongitude
9.83641° or 9° 50′ 11″ eastElevation
3,267 metres (10,719 feet)Open location code
8FRFHRWP+HHOpenStreetMap ID
node 3732079417OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
Discover Piz Üertsch from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Piz Üertsch” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيز أويرتش”
- Cebuano: “Piz Üertsch”
- Chinese: “于爾奇峰”
- Dutch: “Piz Üertsch”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بيز اويرتش”
- French: “Piz Üertsch”
- German: “Piz Üertsch”
- Italian: “Piz Üertsch”
- Ladin: “Piz Üertsch”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piz Uertsch”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piz Üertsch”
- Polish: “Piz Uertsch”
- Swedish: “Piz Üertsch”
- Venetian: “Piso Üertsch”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Piz Alvra and Fuorcla Zavretta.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Piz Üertsch”. Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.